Re: error

[Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>]

tags 204099 + pending
retitle 204099 packages.debian.org: expanding virtual packages can lead to doubled dependencies
thanks

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:10:20PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:42:33AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:31:00PM +0200, Andrzej Szczygielski wrote:
> > > there is an error in
> > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/lvs-kiss.html
> > > namely perl was doubled
> > 
> > It depends on both perl and libtime-hires-perl; the latter is a
> > virtual package provided by perl.  Is this is a bug in the package
> > scripts or the package dependencies?
> 
> Don't know about the package's dependencies but in the new scripts
> for packages.debian.org I wrote, this problem disappears because I
> don't expand virtual packages but put them on an extra page.
> (dependency informations are bloated enough then with all the
> architecture information)
>
> [snip]
>
> If this were a bug report I would mark it as 'pending'.

As it now is...

Gruesse,
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